“Baltimore: The Greatest City in America” - Illustrated Map of Baltimore streets, neighborhoods, and culture by Caleb Luke Lin
![Illustrated Map of Paphos [Cyprus] for Beach News by Abi Daker
Browse around the site; there are many awesome things awaiting you.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ado6oZJg1qbgdqxo1_400.jpg)
Illustrated Map of Paphos [Cyprus] for Beach News by Abi Daker
Browse around the site; there are many awesome things awaiting you.
Illustration major assignment: submission to They Draw and Travel. pen & ink drawing, colored digitally.
Japan From China. (drawn by) Richard Edes Harrison 1943.
Biography from MapsofWorld.com:
Richard Edes Harrison was one of the renowned cartographers of the 1940s. He was a Yale architecture graduate, whose new techniques and theory created novel standards in the field of cartography. Richard Edes Harrison published his first map in 1932 in the Time magazine. He worked as a freelance artist, a cartographic consultant and a staff member of various national magazines. He was also a visiting lecturer in many universities.
Richard Edes Harrison was a gifted illustrator and his maps maintained an artistic dimension. Richard Edes Harrison is known to combine geography, geometry and imagination in his maps. The motive behind the creation of the maps was to serve the map readers and help them understand the political and geographical situations.
It was in 1940 that his work came to be acknowledged. In the same year, Richard Edes Harrison is known to have created maps for Fortune magazine. In these maps he modified the bird’s eye view format to a global setting. The best of his maps were published as ‘Look at the World: The Fortune Atlas for World Strategy’ in 1944.
This is a fascinating look at how bird’s eye view maps were created in the 1800s. The article is mostly centered on Texas, but they were common all over the country. Mostly, they were not created from high elevations or balloons, but from the artist’s imagination and careful observation. These must have been immensely time-consuming and one can certainly appreciate the talent and artistic ability that went into them. Be sure to visit the Big Map Blog for more excellent examples of this type of map.
Sometimes interesting things are hard to find, so I made this map. Never be bored! Prints available here.
